Mother blames doctor’s negligence for girl’s death

SISON, Pangasinan: The parents of an eight-year-old girl who reportedly died of Japanese encephalitis (JE) insisted that the primary cause of their daughter’s death is negligence of a doctor in a public hospital.

Maricar Doctolero, mother of Lyka Mae Cauton, claimed that the female doctor whose name they failed to get, did not immediately tell them to transfer the girl to another hospital as the child’s condition was getting worse.

Doctolero said the doctor only instructed the nurse to give their daughter intravenous fluids while the girl was confined at the Rosario Emergency Hospital in La Union on September 2.